Multinational Automated Clearing House U.S.A. said it signed agreements to provide roamer call data clearing services to Global System for Mobile service providers American Personal Communications, Powertel Inc., Microcell Connexions Inc., Aerial Communications, Airadigm Communications, DigiPH PCS, Conestoga Wireless and NPI Wireless. A subsidiary of Luxembourg-based MACH S.A., MACH USA of New*Jersey offers: MACH Data for data clearing, validation, edits, format conversion, reporting and multinetwork high usage analysis; MACH Finance for financial clearing and settlement between operators; and MACH Training, a roamer training package.
SecurFone America Inc. said it has completed 30 percent of its nationwide cellular rollout and expects to complete rollout by September. The company said it has cellular resale agreements with AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Bell Atlantic Mobile, GTE Wireless, AirTouch Communications Inc., BellSouth Cellular Corp. and Ameritech Cellular Services. SecurFone also operates a prepaid wireless service bureau and offers debit software.
TekNow Inc. and Motorola Inc. agreed to implement a two-way input protocol as part of an ongoing strategic alliance between the companies. TME, short for Telocator Message Entry, is a paging input protocol standard developed by the Personal Communications Industry Association to provide enhanced message entry capabilities, including registered login, binary and secure message deposit and advanced two-way paging.
Powertel Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Sendit announced plans to launch a wireless Internet service based on Sendit’s Internet Cellular Smart Access system in Powertel’s personal communications services network. ICSA will give customers e-mail optimized for the mobile wireless environment and service as a base to launch future Internet-based services.
